Friday, February 22, 2008

HEY EUROPE? Listen up, please.........

I've been wanting to tell you something for a while:

France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Belgium, England, Hungary, Finland, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, …..etc., I’m getting a bit tired of the insults and name calling and the incredibly patronizing suggestion that some of you should pick our president for us.

We have Liberals* over here bemoaning the fact that you don’t “like us”. Sorry, but not all of us do feel that way. We like to be liked, but not as much as we did.
Those days are over, especially after your treatment of us since this war we’re waging for ourselves…and you…in Iraq, to keep the world a safer place. Sorry you don’t “like us” for that.

For those of you who are willing to hear the truth, please pay close attention to why I think so many of you have a low opinion of this country. You don’t “like us” because of who’s telling you about us:

The biggest English language newspaper you read there is the International Herald Tribune. Do you know it is now wholly owned by the New York Times? Do you know that the New York Times is a very liberal (far more left than your definition for liberal) newspaper in America? Or do you believe it when you hear it’s the newspaper “of record” here? It is not. It is a large newspaper with some well known writers, famous because of the city it’s in. That’s it.

The New York Times might not say it’s against our country, but the evidence is pretty clear; newspapers which champion their country don’t call administrations names, don’t reveal top secret information, don’t celebrate our enemies, and don’t undermine wars we’re still fighting. The New York Times does. The New York Times, to some of us, hates America.

You read the product of that hate. And you think that must be what all Americans think. You couldn’t be farther from the truth. Most of us don’t want an “all Conservative” paper; we just want one which tells the truth, at least on the first six pages. We like opinion sections to be edgy but we want the truth on the front pages. You have that there, congratulations, but we do not. Don’t confuse the two situations. What you see on our front pages is mostly not an unbiased truth.

Did you know that your big name journalists are paid the big bucks to come to America to give you the news here but, instead, in many cases, translate, word for word, the articles in the New York Times and other liberal newspapers? Yes, we see it every day in your more famous foreign papers on the internet; my husband and I. My husband laughs as he sees that the big German papers are carrying more and more articles translated by Germans from American authors. Do not think these are opinions of Germans coming here and reporting what they see. No, these are mostly disgruntled liberal American opinions you are getting. You’d be ill advised to base your information on these. No wonder you don’t like us. The liberal papers themselves don’t like us.

CNN International is about the only American television news you will get. Most Americans don’t know that what you see in Europe is different and even more liberally biased than our CNN here. Yes, what you see every day and night is American news through the filter of liberals. And you base your attitudes about us on that. Why would you “like us”?! They don’t like us, either.

Our celebrities might excite you and you might think all Americans think like they do when they come to your countries and insult us and our government. You’re wrong. Some of us have stopped going to movies in which those who hate America star. We still like their acting; we just can’t see spending money on their films, supporting them so they can fly back to Europe first class and do another round of America bashing.

You might not “like us”, but at least consider what I’m saying, consider the source of your dislike. While you’re busy hating America, remember which way the immigration is going, too…I haven’t any friends migrating to Sweden lately, nobody’s fighting to get into Hungary or England, either. Especially England.

As England slips into an Islamic abyss of minarets, shish kebab and calls for Sharia Law, keep laughing at America as she tries to prevent that from happening to us…and YOU. Does that make sense?

Listen to the Conservative media, read the internet. I don’t ask you to believe everything Conservatives are saying, I only ask you to consider two sides to every question. We don’t think monolithically here any more than you do in your countries, believe it or not.

I’ll say goodbye now, auf Wiedersehen, au revoir, ciao, etc. Stop believing all the bad you hear about America and we promise we won’t believe all the wild stuff we hear about you! By the way, there is plenty of good coming from Iraq…have YOU heard it??

*I use the term “liberal” for Europeans in the way Americans use the term. Please, Europe, substitute the term for “Left” as I know the “liberal” there is more centrist than we define it here.



ADDENDUM: I was just sent the following email...(Thanks, Pat).. Any more questions, Europe?

Media Ignore Saddam's WMD Intent

Wednesday, February 13, 2008 9:33 AMBy: Ronald Kessler

When FBI agent George Piro recently described debriefing Saddam Hussein for seven months after his capture, he disclosed that the Iraqi dictator admitted his intention to re-start his weapons of mass destruction program within a year.
That plan included developing nuclear weapons capability, according to Saddam.
The revelation should have hit Page One of every newspaper.
It would have further justified President Bush’s decision to invade Iraq, a key issue in the coming presidential election. But many in the mainstream media could not bear to hear that Bush may have done something right.
When Piro’s interview came out in my book, "The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack," NBC Nightly News, Fox News, and Newsmax ran the news of Saddam’s admission, but few newspapers published a story. CNN ran a story on the debriefing of Saddam but made no mention of Saddam’s plans to resume his weapons of mass destruction program, including developing nuclear capability. Instead, CNN said that what Saddam told Piro “throws more cold water on the justification for war” because Saddam admitted he was bluffing about having weapons of mass destruction.
Two and a half months later, "60 Minutes" ran the first television interview with Piro. The interview buried the reference to Saddam’s WMD and nuclear plans, as did the press release on the CBS Web site. Likewise, an AP story on the interview mentioned Saddam’s plans in the 11th paragraph. Only four U.S. newspapers ran a story referring to Saddam’s WMD and nuclear plans.
The Washington Post ran a 542-word story on the interview leaving out any mention of Saddam’s avowed intentions. The New York Times ran no story at all.
Today, we have press censorship similar to what existed in the old Soviet Union, except the censors are journalists themselves, and it’s in reverse: News favorable to the government is suppressed.



I rest my case. z

13 comments:

Brooke said...

Preach it! ;)

Z said...

maybe I should have added "AMEN, HALLELUJIAH" at the end, ya think?!!
Well...it's true, right!?

Anonymous said...

Great article Z. Topical and important. Also, not a subject discussed by enough interested parties.

The populations of the western world, who are supposed to be free, and beneficiaries of the truth by the media which is supposed to serve them, are indeed ill served and manipulated.

A sorry, sad commentary at a time when those very same countries, including ours, are in such peril. Thank you for this fine, timely contribution.

Pris

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

I believe America should be naturally inclined to pursue a foreign policy geared towards pissing off the maximum number of Europeans possible. These are, for the most part, descendants of people too lethargic and dull to move to a better life in the United States.

Take France, for example. Here's a nation that has, through its own sense of international adventurism, been exposed to literally hundreds of superior cultures all over the planet, and yet, they still force their children to learn French. Talk about barbarians. These are the people that invented totalitarian leftism (Robespierre, Napoleon, et. al.), and they can't even keep their own country. How many "French Republics" have there been now? And look at France's contributions to the world - Haiti, West Africa, Syria, Vietnam... gee thanks.

Not to dump on France too much, because really it's America's fault that we gave France back to French-speaking people before introducing them to the concepts of "Liberté, Equalité, Fraternité" - these feebs don't even have a word for "entrepeneur."

But really, Europe as a whole is a messed up place. How they've survived so long without participating in Western civilization is beyond me.

Anonymous said...

beamish in '08!

Z said...

"not to dump on France?" Mr. Beamish...don't look now, but...

As you know, France, Germany, and most other countries are comprised of libs and cons... they share much the same feelings and values we do here. What's fascinating is their real hard lefty plans are comprised of absolutely no different than the Hillary/Obama wish lists. The conservatives have the values of conservatives here.
One of Germany's states has a far left bigwig who begged his constituency not to vote for his party's guy! Yup, warned them "he's too far left....get a grip!" They didn't, sadly...the lefty won by a very small margin. The other state which voted that day voted conservative by a big margin. This was a month or so ago. I hope one of our lefties finally stands up here and says the same thing. Ya think?

Z said...

"We now have a pro-American
President of France. And, in
spite of what some radicals say,
I think we should elect a pro-American
President of the United States.
...martin silbermintz"

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

Bagging on Europe should be a grand American tradition.

Here's a continent full of people that for the past 3000 years haven't found a way to peacefully co-exist for longer than a span of 20 years.

And we call Africa uncivilized.

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

Guess how many wars were fought on European soil in the 20th Century?

If you said "40," you are correct.

1911-1912 Italo-Turkish War
1912–1913 Balkan Wars
1912-1913 First Balkan War
1913 Second Balkan War
1914–1918 World War I
1916 Easter Rising
1917–1921 Russian Civil War
1918 Finnish Civil War
1918 Polish-Czech war for Teschen Silesia
1918–1919 Polish-Ukrainian War
1918–1919 Greater Poland Uprising
1918–1920 Estonian Liberation War
1918-1920 Latvian War of Independence
1919–1920 Czechoslovakia-Hungary War
1919–1921 Silesian Uprisings
1919–1921 Polish-Soviet War
1919–1921 Anglo-Irish War
1920 Polish-Lithuanian War
1922–1923 Irish Civil War
1936–1939 Spanish Civil War
1939–1945 World War II
1939-1940 Winter War
1941-1944 Continuation War
1944 Slovak National Uprising
1946-1949 Greek Civil War
1956 Uprising in Poznan
1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary
1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
1969-1998 The Troubles of Northern Ireland
1988-1994 Nagorno-Karabakh War
1991-1992 War in South Ossetia
1991-1995 Croatian War of Independence
1992 War of Transnistria
1992-1998 First War in Abkhazia
1992-1995 Bosnian War
1994–1996 First Chechen War
1996-1999 First and Second Kosovo Wars
1998 Second War of Abkhazia
1999-Ongoing Second Chechen War

Europeans are some of the most barbaric people on Earth.

Anonymous said...

Mr. Beamish, regardless of one's desire to ignore Europe, the world has become much smaller due to technology.

If for no other reason than watching the ramifications of Islamism, we cannot afford to turn a blind eye towards those in the world who are most closely related to us.

I am not suggesting we become internationalists, I am suggesting that in many respects what happens in Europe directly affects us.

For one thing, they are as we speak, making decisions regarding Islam which should alarm us all. It is a lesson from which we should learn how NOT to deal with the Islamic scourge.

We cannot make the mistake of thinking "that's not us, so why worry?" What is happening there, thanks to political correctness, and leftist thinking, can happen here, and in some ways has begun here.

The socialist policies rife in Europe are another glaring lesson in what not to do. As Z has said, there may be an awakening there that they are in dire peril, and it is still not too late for Europe to realize the US is a partner in fighting for the Western culture.

The reality is millions of Americans are descendants of the europeans, and there are values that we still share, more so than with any other peoples in the world.

America is unique, and in a class by herself, but we cannot afford to be marginalized through American hubris. We are part of the global economy, and rely on that economy to remain healthy. With that comes interdependence and cooperation. We would like it not to be so, but it is.

We know who our enemies are, If we are to choose our "friends", it is best to choose those based on shared interests and a commonality of values. We share a history that has led us to a sense of mutual interest.

God knows that I myself have railed against the europeans myself. However I know if Europe is lost to Islamism, our difficulties would multiply a thousand fold. We would be more vulnerable on the world stage. In countless ways.

So, it's important to be apprised as to what is happening in Europe. We need to keep up with what's going on there, and the American people are kept pretty ignorant on that score.

As I said, history is being written as we speak. Hopefully, lessons learned, are lessons heeded.

Pris

Z said...

Ya, mr. B, and I wish they'd fought against the Turks when they were killing the Armenians, too!

Europe's a lot of different countries living closely together..your list doesn't really reflect barbarism, it reflects the same little greedy people WE are only more inclined to use the elbows and push people around because they're closer!

Europe isn't perfect, but it's not all bad or all wrong, either.

Pris is right..we have a lot to learn; even if it's "Man, they didn't handle THAT too well, did they!" (islam, for example) BUT, they're waking up as WE are following in the footsteps which screwed them UP. Go figure.

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

I whole-heartedly agree - Europe stands as a model of "what not to do."

And yet, they only stand because of the umbrella of protection provided by the US military since the end of World War 2.

Could Europe afford all their grand socialist programs if the United States didn't serve as their proxy military might?

In this respect, I deny and disagree with the idea that we "share" European values.

It's more accurate to say that the people who once made Europe great migrated and created America, leaving behind underachieving rabble who can not help but to impose brutality upon each other to satisfy largely contrived grievances with each other over how they all lost their place in the world.

It's time to colonize Europe, and push their atavistic tribes onto reservations.

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

Then, and only then, will Europe be ready to be inducted into Western Civilization.